November 20
1789 - New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
1910 - Francisco Madero began an armed revolt against the president of Mexico, Porfirio Diaz.
1945 - The war crimes trials of 24 German World War II leaders began in Nuremberg, Germany. (Almost a year later, the International Military Tribune sentenced 12 of the defendants to death; seven received prison sentences ranging from 10 years to life; three were acquitted.)
1947 - The future Queen Elizabeth II married Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh.
1952 - President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower announced his selection of John Foster Dulles to be his secretary of state.
1962 - President John F. Kennedy agreed to lift the American blockade of Cuba, ending the Cuban missile crisis.
1967 - The U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock at the Commerce Department ticked past 200 million.
1969 - The Nixon administration announced a halt to residential use of the pesticide DDT as part of a total phase-out.
1975 - Spain's Gen. Francisco Franco died after nearly four decades of absolute rule.
1977 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to address Israel's parliament.
1985 - The first version of Microsoft's Windows operating system, Windows 1.0, was released.
1995 - Princess Diana admitted during an interview broadcast on BBC TV that she had been unfaithful to Prince Charles.
2000 - Peru's president Alberto Fujimori resigned.
2000 - Lawyers for Al Gore and George W. Bush battled before the Florida Supreme Court over whether the presidential election recount should be allowed to continue.
2003 - Singer Michael Jackson was booked on suspicion of child molestation in Santa Barbara, California. (He was later acquited.)
2003 - Record producer Phil Spector was charged with murder in the shooting death of an actor, Lana Clarkson, at his home in Alhambra, California. (Spector’s first trial ended with a hung jury in 2007; he was convicted of second-degree murder in 2009 and sentenced to 19 years to life in prison. He died in January 2021.)
2015 - Jonathan Pollard, a former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst, was released from prison after 30 years behind bars for spying for Israel. (After five years of parole, Pollard moved to Israel in December 2020.)
2016 - President Barack Obama, concluding his final official world tour in Peru, told a news conference in Lima he didn’t intend to become his successor’s constant critic — but reserved the right to speak out if President-elect Donald Trump or his policies breached certain “values or ideals.”
2020 - Georgia’s Republican governor and its top elections official certified results showing Democrat Joe Biden won the state’s presidential vote over President Donald Trump; the margin was less than 0.5%, allowing the Trump campaign to ask for a recount. A recount of the presidential election in Wisconsin’s two most heavily Democratic counties began with the Trump campaign seeking unsuccessfully to discard tens of thousands of absentee ballots.
2020 - Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old from Illinois who was charged with killing two people during a demonstration that followed a police shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, posted $2 million bail and was released from custody.
2020 - The development of a vaccine took another step forward when Pfizer asked U.S. regulators to allow emergency use of its COVID-19 vaccine.
Birthdays
20 - Eleonora Gaggero (actress)
26 - Michael Clifford (musician)
32 - Cody Linley (actor)
35 - Jaina Lee Ortiz (actress)
35 - Ashley Fink (actress)
36 - Dan Byrd (actor)
37 - Jeremy Jordan (actor)
40 - Andrea Riseborough (actress)
40 - Kimberley Walsh (singer)
42 - Jacob Pitts (actor)
43 - Nadine Velazquez (actress)
44 - Josh Turner (country singer)
45 - Dominique Dawes (gymnast)
45 - Laura Harris (actress)
46 - Joshua Gomez (actor)
46 - Dierks Bentley (country singer)
47 - Marisa Ryan (actress)
50 - Joel McHale (actor/comedian)
51 - Sabrina Lloyd (actress)
52 - Callie Thorne (actress)
57 - Ned Vaughn (actor)
58 - Ming-Na Wen (actress)
62 - Sean Young (actor)
65 - Mark Gastineau (football player)
65 - Bo Derek (actress)
73 - Richard Masur (actor)
74 - Joe Walsh (singer)
75 - Judy Woodruff (broadcast journalist)
78 - Veronica Hamel (actress)
79 - Joe Biden (President of the United States)
83 - Dick Smothers (comedian)
94 - Estelle Parsons (actress)
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Today in Sports History - November 20
1909 - Nebraska defeats Denver 6-5.
1915 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye 52-7 to end the year at 8-0 and champions of the Missouri Valley Conference (4-0).
1920 - Nebraska defeats Michigan State 35-7.
1926 - Nebraska defeats New York University 15-7.
1937 - #11 Nebraska defeats Cockeye 28-0.
1942 - The National Hockey League (NHL) ended their regular season over-time until World War II was over.
1943 - Cockeye defeated Nebraska 33-13.
1948 - Missouri defeats Nebraska 33-6.
1954 - #3 Oklahoma defeats Nebraska 55-7; NU finishes as Big 7 runner up (4-2).
1962 - Mickey Mantle was named the American League Most Valuable Player for the third time.
1965 - Chick Hearn began a 3,000 game streak of play-by-play calls for the Los Angeles Lakers.
1977 - Walter Payton of the Chicago Bears rushes for an NFL single-game record 275 yards.
1983 - Butch Woolfolk of the New York Giants ties an NFL record with 43 rushing attempts.
1988 - Boston College defeats Army 38-24 in the Emerald Isle Classic in Dublin, Ireland, the first NCAA football game played in Europe.
1997 - A.C. Green played in his NBA record 907th straight game.
2010 - #18 Texas A&M defeats #9 Nebraska 9-6.
2012 - Former boxing champion Hector “Macho” Camacho was shot while sitting in a car in his hometown of Bayamon, Puerto Rico. (Camacho died four days later after doctors removed him from life support.)
1789 - New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
1910 - Francisco Madero began an armed revolt against the president of Mexico, Porfirio Diaz.
1945 - The war crimes trials of 24 German World War II leaders began in Nuremberg, Germany. (Almost a year later, the International Military Tribune sentenced 12 of the defendants to death; seven received prison sentences ranging from 10 years to life; three were acquitted.)
1947 - The future Queen Elizabeth II married Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh.
1952 - President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower announced his selection of John Foster Dulles to be his secretary of state.
1962 - President John F. Kennedy agreed to lift the American blockade of Cuba, ending the Cuban missile crisis.
1967 - The U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock at the Commerce Department ticked past 200 million.
1969 - The Nixon administration announced a halt to residential use of the pesticide DDT as part of a total phase-out.
1975 - Spain's Gen. Francisco Franco died after nearly four decades of absolute rule.
1977 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to address Israel's parliament.
1985 - The first version of Microsoft's Windows operating system, Windows 1.0, was released.
1995 - Princess Diana admitted during an interview broadcast on BBC TV that she had been unfaithful to Prince Charles.
2000 - Peru's president Alberto Fujimori resigned.
2000 - Lawyers for Al Gore and George W. Bush battled before the Florida Supreme Court over whether the presidential election recount should be allowed to continue.
2003 - Singer Michael Jackson was booked on suspicion of child molestation in Santa Barbara, California. (He was later acquited.)
2003 - Record producer Phil Spector was charged with murder in the shooting death of an actor, Lana Clarkson, at his home in Alhambra, California. (Spector’s first trial ended with a hung jury in 2007; he was convicted of second-degree murder in 2009 and sentenced to 19 years to life in prison. He died in January 2021.)
2015 - Jonathan Pollard, a former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst, was released from prison after 30 years behind bars for spying for Israel. (After five years of parole, Pollard moved to Israel in December 2020.)
2016 - President Barack Obama, concluding his final official world tour in Peru, told a news conference in Lima he didn’t intend to become his successor’s constant critic — but reserved the right to speak out if President-elect Donald Trump or his policies breached certain “values or ideals.”
2020 - Georgia’s Republican governor and its top elections official certified results showing Democrat Joe Biden won the state’s presidential vote over President Donald Trump; the margin was less than 0.5%, allowing the Trump campaign to ask for a recount. A recount of the presidential election in Wisconsin’s two most heavily Democratic counties began with the Trump campaign seeking unsuccessfully to discard tens of thousands of absentee ballots.
2020 - Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old from Illinois who was charged with killing two people during a demonstration that followed a police shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, posted $2 million bail and was released from custody.
2020 - The development of a vaccine took another step forward when Pfizer asked U.S. regulators to allow emergency use of its COVID-19 vaccine.
Birthdays
20 - Eleonora Gaggero (actress)
26 - Michael Clifford (musician)
32 - Cody Linley (actor)
35 - Jaina Lee Ortiz (actress)
35 - Ashley Fink (actress)
36 - Dan Byrd (actor)
37 - Jeremy Jordan (actor)
40 - Andrea Riseborough (actress)
40 - Kimberley Walsh (singer)
42 - Jacob Pitts (actor)
43 - Nadine Velazquez (actress)
44 - Josh Turner (country singer)
45 - Dominique Dawes (gymnast)
45 - Laura Harris (actress)
46 - Joshua Gomez (actor)
46 - Dierks Bentley (country singer)
47 - Marisa Ryan (actress)
50 - Joel McHale (actor/comedian)
51 - Sabrina Lloyd (actress)
52 - Callie Thorne (actress)
57 - Ned Vaughn (actor)
58 - Ming-Na Wen (actress)
62 - Sean Young (actor)
65 - Mark Gastineau (football player)
65 - Bo Derek (actress)
73 - Richard Masur (actor)
74 - Joe Walsh (singer)
75 - Judy Woodruff (broadcast journalist)
78 - Veronica Hamel (actress)
79 - Joe Biden (President of the United States)
83 - Dick Smothers (comedian)
94 - Estelle Parsons (actress)
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Today in Sports History - November 20
1909 - Nebraska defeats Denver 6-5.
1915 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye 52-7 to end the year at 8-0 and champions of the Missouri Valley Conference (4-0).
1920 - Nebraska defeats Michigan State 35-7.
1926 - Nebraska defeats New York University 15-7.
1937 - #11 Nebraska defeats Cockeye 28-0.
1942 - The National Hockey League (NHL) ended their regular season over-time until World War II was over.
1943 - Cockeye defeated Nebraska 33-13.
1948 - Missouri defeats Nebraska 33-6.
1954 - #3 Oklahoma defeats Nebraska 55-7; NU finishes as Big 7 runner up (4-2).
1962 - Mickey Mantle was named the American League Most Valuable Player for the third time.
1965 - Chick Hearn began a 3,000 game streak of play-by-play calls for the Los Angeles Lakers.
1977 - Walter Payton of the Chicago Bears rushes for an NFL single-game record 275 yards.
1983 - Butch Woolfolk of the New York Giants ties an NFL record with 43 rushing attempts.
1988 - Boston College defeats Army 38-24 in the Emerald Isle Classic in Dublin, Ireland, the first NCAA football game played in Europe.
1997 - A.C. Green played in his NBA record 907th straight game.
2010 - #18 Texas A&M defeats #9 Nebraska 9-6.
2012 - Former boxing champion Hector “Macho” Camacho was shot while sitting in a car in his hometown of Bayamon, Puerto Rico. (Camacho died four days later after doctors removed him from life support.)
